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ADMISSION

Admission to the McClung Museum is always FREE.

MUSEUM HOURS

The Museum is OPEN:

* Monday through Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
* Sunday: 1:00 to 5:00 pm

The Museum is CLOSED:

* New Year's Day
* Easter Sunday
* Memorial Day
* Fourth of July
* Labor Day
* Thanksgiving Day
* Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

The McClung Museum is a general museum with collections in anthropology, archaeology, decorative arts, local history, and natural history. The exhibits document ways of life, cultural trends, and technologies from prehistoric times to the present day, and showcase much of Tennessee's past -- its geology, history, art, and culture. The McClung Museum is a special place -- a place of discovery, a place to learn about the world around us.

As a part of the University of Tennessee, the Museum supports and participates in the University's mission to serve the state, region, and nation through scholarship, teaching, artistic creation, professional practice, and public service.

The professionalism and high caliber of the Museum are reflected in its accreditation by the American Association of Museums. In fact, the McClung Museum is one of only 12 museums in Tennessee to be so recognized.

I invite you to visit the Museum and to enjoy the many experiences we offer. As Lewis, a 4th grader, wrote to us: "It is the best museum in the world."

Exhibition
Birds in Art
May 9 - August 14

Birds in Art comprises 60 original contemporary works by painters and sculptors hailing from Australia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. The exhibition is organized annually by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, in Wausau, Wis., and provides a wonderful comparison the 18th- and 19th- century bird art by Mark Catesby, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon in the concurrent exhibit Birds of the Smokies.

Given the number of bird species around the world and their widely diverse habitats, artists who look to the avian world for subject matter find the possible artistic interpretations almost infinite. Whether portraits, seascapes, or landscapes, painted realistically, whimsically, or trompe l’oeil, giving rise to humor, nostalgia, or introspection, Birds in Art transports, entertains, educates, and stimulates.